Wheeler autopsy completed and results announced

The Oconee coroner says the Cole Dylan Wheeler autopsy showed that the 18-year old Seneca man died of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries in his fiery car crash yesterday morning on U-S 76/the Long Creek Highway.  However, Coroner Karl Addis says the toxicology analysis associated with the fatal accident is pending; those test results, he says, could take four to eight weeks.  Addis has ruled Wheeler’s death an accidental death.